I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Dr. Timothy C Mullet)
ABOUT ME
Reading Time: < 1 minute My name is Marco Pesente, I live in the province of Verona (North-Est Italy). From the late 1970s I delighted in obtaining audio recordings of all beings that in nature emits songs, calls and noises, with particular regard to the bird songs, but also…
Mission
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is not meant to be an exhaustive website on the recording of “sounds” that can be “captured” in nature, there are already dozens of excellent sites where the various audio recording techniques are reported more or less in-depth.The purpose I set for myself…
CONTACTS
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Ortolan Bunting
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ortolan bunting song. Recorded using a mid MONO parabolic microphone – 2 x Primo EM172 caps and a 33 cm dish.Filmed with a Sony Nex6 + adapter and a Lens Nikon 400/5,6 IF-ED. Special thanks to Gastone Pivatelli.
Learn MoreShotgun Microphones Vs. Parabola
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here a test at the limit of a reasonable sound pickup distance (about 40 meters) regarding a type of Robin call, the so-called repeated Tic call, to test the real difference between a sound pickup performed with a parabolic microphone versus two types of…
Luca Baghino in Tenerife using ZOOM F3 and stereo baffle
Reading Time: 6 minutes In January 2025, I was able to realize my dream of a holiday in Tenerife after meeting Rubén Barone, a friend and naturalist from Santa Cruz, whom I met in Genoa in 2019 and who invited me on a nature-focused visit. So, after the…
Glaucidium passerinum by Grégory Chamming’s
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I hadn’t been back to visit the tiny Golden-eyed Owl (who lives in the forest above my house) for 15 days already… So I put down a little microphone, after spending 2 hours with her, and the incessant comings and goings, male and female,…